Director of Engineering

A newly formed robotics division within one of the world's most ambitious ocean technology groups needs an engineering leader to build its technical backbone from day one, replacing a fragmented model with one unit owning every physical asset end to end.

The Impact You Will Have

• Build and lead a multidisciplinary engineering function, hardware, systems and software, across a hundreds-of-millions-pound delivery portfolio spanning yards on three continents.
• Set the engineering governance and operating model the business has never had.
• Own technical capability behind live, high-profile autonomous missions in demanding maritime environments.
• Build a growing engineering team and bench from the ground up, reporting into the division's top leadership.

What Success Looks Like

• Genuine engineering credibility, forged in maritime, defence or another complex setting, someone who has built capability rather than inherited it.
• Comfort with ambiguity: no playbook exists yet, and the judgement to add structure without slowing delivery.
• The influence to bring senior stakeholders onto the same page without dictating from day one.

What Is on Offer

• A newly created, board-visible leadership role at the heart of a rapidly scaling technology business.
• The chance to build an engineering organisation from a blank page, with full executive backing.
• Genuine influence over one of the largest autonomous maritime fleets in the world.
• Long-term upside as the role grows.

A rare chance to define engineering leadership at the frontier of autonomous maritime tech.

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